The aim of this document is to give you an understanding of technical topics that go beyond the usual configuration and use of JobRouter and are for that reason not described in the user, admin or workflow designer manual.
This document is intended for experienced IT administrators and covers the following areas:
Problem analysis and troubleshooting
This chapter describes how to troubleshoot problems with JobRouter. You will learn how to activate the logging of the different JobRouter components and how to configure it. Furthermore, it is explained where those generated log information can be found and how you can use them as basis to perform your own troubleshooting. In addition, it is described how to receive certain detailed information that can be helpful for troubleshooting by activating the debug mode.
Performance optimization
This chapter describes optimizing the JobRouter environment. Here you will learn how to activate parallel processing pools in JobRouter to speed up processes with many instances. Furthermore, it describes how to activate the background sending and recursive sending of instances to improve the user perceived performance.
Load distribution and failover
This chapter describes how to run the JobFlow component independently to not burden the web server with automatic steps. Furthermore, you will learn setting up and configuring JobRouter in a scalable environment.
Using instances
This chapter describes using the instancing function of JobRouter to set up and to use multiple JobRouter instances with one installation.
Advanced security functions
This chapter describes how to use the JobRouter passphrase. Furthermore, it describes creating an encrypted database connection when using SQLSRV.
Description of the JobRouter database
In this chapter you learn more about the structure of the JobRouter database and how to analyze the data.
Description of the JobServer modules
You can learn more about the modules contained in the JobServer module in this chapter.
External starting of instances
In this chapter you will learn how to automatically initiate JobRouter instances over the database.
Backup and restore
This chapter describes which JobRouter data has to be considered during a backup and how to restore a system.
Modules
This chapter describes which technical factors have to be considered when using specific JobRouter modules.
